June 22, 2009
I can’t believe I haven’t been updating this thing, and I’m paying for it to be on the internet. But that’s alright. So I started to write this post, thinking I could come up with something to say, speak my mind, where people who read this can benefit from. Let me grab my quote book, pick a random quote, and just go from there…
“All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly until they take root in our personal experience.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What a coincidence. Here I am trying to think of something insightful, yet it’s probably already been thought of. But I can take part of saying its mine once I take that thought and do something with it.
There are times when my friends and even your friends are following what this quote is saying. What I’m talking about is giving advice. People ask for advice to help clear their minds in situations then can’t deal with alone. Advice is your thoughts, my thoughts, anyone’s thoughts being shared with others to help the one who needs it in some way or another. It gives them a different perspective towards the situation and even open up doors to options where they didn’t think was possible. When advice is taken, this is where the thought becomes theirs because they are letting it intertwine with their personal experience.
When I look back, I a lot of my friends came to me for advice in situations I’ve never dealt with. But in order for me to help them, I put myself in their shoes and think what would be the best reasonable way to deal with what’s happening. And to my friends, it makes sense. And I’m glad. It makes me feel good to help out a friend.